Simon Cowell has a birthday today; he is 44 today, born Brighton, England. I didn't realize he was that old, but it's hard to tell with his hair.
Also, what a weird quote: that after seeing Clay's post-Idol success, "Idol execs recognized they were wrong to throw so much weight behind Studdard during the competition." What on earth? Was the competition (maybe) FIXED!!!!! How could they have "put weight behind him" if it wasn't. I wrote to the AI producers after the vote (as I'm sure many of you did) and said I don't know if I'm going to watch the show the next time because it's no fun and it doesn't mean anything if our votes don't really count for anything. We all know who really got the most votes!
One review I read said that Clay "sings the Bejesus out of every song he sings!" Now, that's putting it in a nut shell!